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Originally Posted by Ursus Maior
Since the PRC is a topic in a thread here already, I was thinking, if some of the successes of the USSR could be explained by a sudden weakness of the US armed forces after the so called Third Taiwan Strait Crisis went hot, which in known history it of course has not? |
I'd forgotten about this. Thanks for bringing it up.
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Originally Posted by Ursus Maior
With border hostilities along the Korean DMZ and 7th Fleet badly mauled, a mid-1990s "Asian Pivot" might have weakened deterrence possible by NATO during peace time or at least prohibited REFORGER-like large scale troop movements in swift time. This might have been enough for the USSR to gain initial ground against NATO frontline forces in late 1997 and early 1998. As per FL's timeline, once the US fully implements its levée en masse and fields dozens of new light infantry brigades: 500,000 draftees easily makes 25 divisions (actually 28.9) modeled after late Cold War mechanized divisions, which had 17,300 personnel. This would leave plenty room for filling up other services.
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Well put. I'd posited as much re DPRK and PRC aggression helping to explain early Soviet success in the v4 timeline, but in less detail, in post #241 of this thread.
https://forum.juhlin.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=241
One thing that I really don't get about v4 is how it currently includes no mention of WW3 taking place anywhere else but in NW/Central Europe and the Middle East. FL's Twilight War doesn't seem like much of a
world war, as currently written.
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